The Team: Founders and Board

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. ―Ryunosuke Satoro

Clay Churchill

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Clay is also known as MacGuyver as he always has what you need to fix most anything, anytime, anywhere. He has been married to his wife for 20 years and is a fun dad who loves to spend time with his three teenagers. After taking his family on a trip to Kenya, it changed the way they saw things. While Clay works full time as a project manager for LexisNexis, he comes alive on the ground in Kenya and is an integral part of Just One. Among many other things, he overseas Just One Africa operations, directs trips, and continues to grow our on the ground partnerships. He loves the people of Kenya, and is passionate about helping to provide clean water and caring for the orphans and vulnerable children. Clay loves adventure, especially with his family, and is always ready for an exciting new experience.

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Alastair Wilde

Co-Founder and Board Member

Alastair was born and raised in South Africa and has experienced first hand the effects of living in a developing country. After moving to, and then attending college in the United States, he devoted his time to nonprofit organizations overseeing marketing strategies, leading trips, and conducting conferences. Alastair has developed a passion for seeing communities in Africa become sustainable under their own power. This passion is what stirred his heart to become a part of what Just One is doing. Alastair currently serves as the worship director for Cross Church in Cumming, GA while using any time available to help further the cause of helping those in need.

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Joel Stocksdale

Chairman of the Board

Joel earned a Master’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2001. Since 2001, he has held a number of accounting and regulatory compliance roles, and currently works as a regulatory compliance consultant. Joel has long been interested in clean water projects, and was excited at the opportunity to join the Just One Africa Board of Directors. As Chairman, Joel assists primarily with business, finances, legal, and regulatory considerations and functions.

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Noel Coleman

Board Member

Noel started looking at life differently early on. From starting a general contracting company at the age of 12 and reselling “deformed” cookies from a local business on the school bus to winning the Ranatra Fusca individual’s award for creative thinking, looking at the world differently has always moved him toward what’s possible. After leaving Georgia Tech while studying engineering, Noel has gone on to develop skills from sales to executive management, strategy and planning helping grow and turn around a company from a small print shop to a SaaS model software provider to the healthcare industry. Noel’s love of children (starting primarily with his 3 boys) drives him to seek ways to protect and serve the most vulnerable from financially adopting children to getting involved in trafficking advocacy. Noel is very excited to be privileged to serve on the board of Just One and help them grow their reach and abilities. Noel lives north of Atlanta with a wife who’s out of his league and three “all-boy” boys.

Amy Churchill

Director of Operations and Co-Founder

Amy loves to serve others, it doesn’t matter if it is preparing meals for her personal chef clients back in the states, or if it means walking home to home to home in rural Kenya conducting follow up on our Clean Water Program. She is at home wherever she is, especially if a cup of coffee is in her hand, her husband of 20 years, and 3 awesome teenagers are with her. Coming from a long line of family members who dedicated themselves to caring and serving others, it seems only natural to continue on with the biggest blessing, which is being able to serve together in such significant ways as a family. Seeing how her children have embraced the changes they have made as a family to start up and grow Just One Africa, have been a constant source of inspiration and reinforce that it really does take JUST ONE person to make a difference!

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Geanna Wilde

Co-Founder

Geanna graduated with a Bachelors Degree and immediately started to train kids and students to see a world beyond themselves. After leading a team on a trip to Kenya, Geanna knew her life would never go back to normal. Upon her arrival back home, she couldn’t stop thinking about making an impact in one life she had met. Geanna co-founded Just One Africa with the aim to partner with local leaders in their villages, and to see a change from devastation and poverty to life and hope. She spends time working on creative ideas for sustainable projects, raising support and awareness for clean water, and watching the lives of vulnerable children change for the good. She strongly believes in the Just One Africa motto "Be the change." Geanna currently serves as the Children and Student Director at Cross Church in Cumming, GA.

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Brian Porter

Board Member

Brian found his technical calling in the dot com era helping companies fulfill their visions and dreams. Since then, Brian has helped companies from the one man start-up to the billion dollar enterprise create software that is profitable and innovative. If you meet Brian, you will find that he is passionate about helping people pursue their passions. He believes that no person should live in poverty, physically or spiritually. He also believes that the world can be changed for the better if we just choose to embrace our unique design and Creator. Brian lives with his wife, two girls, and big-eared dog just north of Atlanta.

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“I had the rich opportunity to travel with the founders of Just One Africa to Kenya and observed first hand what they do. Their vision is clear and intentional – to help those that have great basic needs: clean water through water filters, medical clinics, food and clothing to widows, orphans, and families in the slums, and donations of educational supplies and musical instruments to schools to name just a few of their areas of impact! Because I know my donation truly goes for the designated need, I choose Just One Africa to be my charity of choice. I’m grateful that I can make a difference in the lives of others through this organization. I’m truly impressed with the “heart” of the founders and board of Just One Africa and the opportunity they afford me to be ‘just one’! “